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Show JACOB in e0ESJ0H19 Hj Well-Known Mining Man and Attorney Succumbs to Pneumonia. PAST COMMANDER OF j M'KEAN G. A. R. POST Funeral to Be Held From Hall's H! Establishment Sunday Afternoon. Jacob S. Wolcott, past commander of tho McKoanpost, 0. A. .1?.. also well Hj known in mining circles, died at tlic homo of liis daughter, Miss Mary J. H' "Wolcott, Friday morning al 5:30 o 'clock of pneumonia. Eleven days ago Mr. "Wolcott camo home from liis office and complained of feeling ill. Dr. Fisher H; was immediately snnimoned ;ind did J. S. "WOLCOTT. I.' everything in his power (o keep off the . drca"d disease, but owing to the advanced ad-vanced ape and fcoble condition of the ' patient, death came not wholly unox-pectod. unox-pectod. Mr. "Wolcott would have been 6S years ' old had ho lived until July -1. He was bom in Corning, N. Y., where ho spent his bovhood dnvs. During tho begin-nine begin-nine o'f tho strife between tho north ; and south he enlisted with a largo number num-ber of friends, being the first to answer Lincoln's call for volunteers. Mr. Wolcott Wol-cott sorvod two years in tho army and manv times showed his courago. He j -was "not wounded and returned homo without a scratch. Following the war Mr. "Wolcott took up the practice of i law, which he followed for a number of years in his home town, lie also acted in the capacity of school commissioner ' t Corning for a term. Oamo to Utah in 187-1. ! Mr. "Wolcott married Miss Mary 12. Welts of Corning, one child being born ! to them during their union. Accom- , panied by .his wifo, he came to Utah in 1S74. where he again practiced law. j About six years ago Mrs. "Wolcott died, i Tiring of law, Mr. Wolcott became in-; in-; tested in mining in Utah, to which he devoted much of his time until his death. For many years he had been actively engaged in G. A. Jt. affairs in j this city and during the recent con-J con-J vcntioukcld hero was one of the active ! members who looked a,ftcr tho comfort of tho visiting comrades. Funeral services will be held Sunday at 1 o'clock from tho Hall undertaking ; parlors, where the bodys now being prepared for burial. The local organi-! organi-! zation'of G. A. E. will have charge of . tho services. |